the national gallery immunity from seizure · sorolla: spanish master of light the national...
TRANSCRIPT
THE
NATIONAL
GALLERY
IMMUNITY
FROM SEIZURE
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
18 Mar 2019 - 07 Jul 2019
Immunity from Seizure
The National Gallery is able to provide immunity from seizure under part 6 of the Tribunals, Courts and
Enforcement Act 2007. This Act provides protection from seizure for cultural objects from abroad on loan
to temporary exhibitions in approved museums and galleries in the UK.
The conditions are:
The object is usually kept outside the UK
It is not owned by a person resident in the UK
Its import does not contravene any import regulations
It is brought to the UK for public display in a temporary exhibition at a museum or gallery
The borrowing museum or gallery is approved under the Act
The borrowing museum has published information about the object
For further enquiries, please contact [email protected]
Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed in this document, which are intended to form part
of the forthcoming exhibition, Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light.
Copyright Notice: no images from these pages should be reproduced without permission.
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
18 Mar 2019 - 07 Jul 2019
The National Gallery, London, Trafalgar Square, London, WC2N 5DN
IMMUNITY FROM SEIZURE
Immunity from Seizure
Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light
Protection under the Act is sought for the objects listed below:
18 Mar 2019 - 07 Jul 2019
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© Bilboko Arte Ederren Museoa-Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
X10048
Kissing the Relic (El beso de la reliquia)
1893
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 103.5 × 125 cm Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao
Lender's name and address Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao Museo Plaza, 2
Bilbao
48011
Spain
Accession Number Inv. 69/228
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the Provincial Council of Vizcaya at the Bilbao exhibition, 1894;
Donated by the City Council to the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 1913.
Source:
Blanca Pons-Sorolla and María López Fernández (eds.), Sorolla and the Paris Years, exh. cat.
(New York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016), 236, no. 1.
Immunity from Seizure
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
2018 © Photo Archive - Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia
X10047
Sewing the Sail (Cosiendo la vela)
1896
Place of manufacture: Spain Oil on canvas
Object dimensions: 222 × 300 cm
Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Galleria lnternazionale d'Arte Moderna di Ca' Pesaro
Lender's name and address
Fondazione Musei Civici di VeneziaPiazza San Marco 52Venice30124Italy
Accession Number Inv. 261
Provenance:
Purchased from artist at Venice exhibition for the newly-founded Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di
Ca’ Pesaro* by Venice city council for 10,000 francs, 1905.
Source: Blanca Pons-Sorolla and María López Fernández (eds.), Sorolla and the Paris Years, exh. cat. (New
York: Skira Rizzoli, 2016), 236, no. 4.
*The palace was bequeathed to the city in 1898 and was opened to the public as a Museum of Modern Art
in 1902. (source: http://capesaro.visitmuve.it/it/il-museo/la-sede-e-la-storia/il-palazzo/ accessed: 06/12/18
Immunity from Seizure
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
X10054
Clotilde in a Black Dress (Clotilde con traje negro)
1906
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 186.7 × 118.7 cm
Lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1909 (09.71.3)
Lender's name and address
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York
NY
10028-0198
USA
Accession Number: 09.71.3
Provenance:
Purchased from the artist by the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the Hispanic Society
exhibition, New York, 1909.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalogue 01/11/18:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437706
Immunity from Seizure
Joaquín Sorolla (1863 - 1923)
© Museo Sorolla, Madrid
X10447
María with Mantilla (María con Mantilla)
1910
Place of manufacture: SpainOil on canvas
Object dimensions: 207 × 118 cm Madrid, Museo Sorolla, No. inv. 00902
Lender's name and address Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte España Plaza del Rey 128004 Madrid Spain
Accession Number inv. 00902
Provenance:
Sorolla’s estate, no. 82, 1929;
By descent to his daughter, María Sorolla Garcia;
By descent to Francisco Pons-Sorolla y Arnau;
Donated by him to the Museo Sorolla, 8th February 1980.
Source: Bernardino de Pantorba, La Vida y la Obra de Joaquin Sorolla (Madrid: Extensa, 1970), 143, no. 328.
Museo Sorolla: Catálogo de pintura (Madrid: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 2006), vol. 1, 273, no. 741.